{"id":16360,"date":"2026-09-06T06:53:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T11:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expat-times.com\/panama\/?p=16360"},"modified":"2026-09-05T14:00:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T19:00:23","slug":"un-adopts-equal-earth-world-map-fine-panama-gains-true-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/expat-times.com\/panama\/news\/un-adopts-equal-earth-world-map-fine-panama-gains-true-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Adopts Equal Earth World Map – Fine Panama Gains True Scale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For generations, students in Panama City have stared at classroom walls where their slender isthmus appears as a modest ribbon connecting two massive continents. But that familiar image, shaped by a 16th-century navigation tool, has now faced a historic reckoning at the United Nations<\/a>. The global body voted decisively to retire the Mercator projection as the standard “UN world map<\/strong>” reference, adopting instead the Equal Earth design that shows equatorial nations like Panama at their true, larger scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 164-to-1 vote in New York signals a profound shift in how international institutions, schools, and technology platforms will represent the planet. While the resolution is non-binding, its symbolic weight carries enormous implications for Central American countries that have long seen their geographic importance visually diminished on traditional maps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n